The roof over the living room slopes up to welcome natural daylight. The higher volume is clad in black-stained cedar. A lower volume wrapped in reclaimed barnwood and weathering steel houses the kitchen and sunroom.

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The roof over the living room slopes up to welcome natural daylight. The higher volume is clad in black-stained cedar. A lower volume wrapped in reclaimed barnwood and weathering steel houses the kitchen and sunroom.

A stair assembly of solid cherry slats and thick fir treads leads to an office loft, which creates an intimate dining space below.

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A stair assembly of solid cherry slats and thick fir treads leads to an office loft, which creates an intimate dining space below.

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This house, on a bluff at the northern edge of the Olympic Peninsula, is about the landscape: hiding it, revealing it, and fitting it in. The judges praised the “great entry sequence,” which allows a glimpse of the house from across a long meadow, before winding through dense forest to the parking court, and entering through a series of wood screens. Rustic and refined materials—reclaimed barn wood, black-stained cedar, and weathering steel—express each environmentally attuned volume and reduce the building’s scale.

Peter Q. Bohlin, FAIA, likens the design to “agrarian buildings, which affect how we relate to the natural world.”